Wherever that figure falls is probably the lower end of the spectrum among the different possibilities the government will consider.
The report says that newer radio technologies could help share spectrum among, say, government agencies and companies, and thereby increase capacity a thousandfold.
I have written recently about a trend in which fund managers are finding attractive opportunities further down the market cap spectrum, among some of the UK's smallest companies.
Many have been put forward by other writers and political figures at different points on the political spectrum (among them, Thomas Friedman, the editorialists of The Washington Post and this writer).
There is an enormous pent-up demand for broadband spectrum among the nation's biggest wireless companies, which are eager to build national networks and roll out new wireless Internet services.
Although I hadn't exercised in months and could only manage about 15 sit-ups at a stretch, that seemed to be at the high end of the spectrum, among this particular crowd.
Coming from British Jewry's Liberal camp, he notes that the only growth is at the other end of the spectrum: among the haredim, the ultra-Orthodox, whose garb and close inter-communal ties set them apart.
Even during the Ben Ali years, several opposition groups from across the ideological spectrum – among them Islamists, secularists and communists – came together in a forum known as the October 18 Collectif and worked for several years to produce a joint vision of a future, free Tunisia.
Between Teledesic and ICO, Mr McCaw is also sitting on vast amounts of valuable spectrum; among his ideas to make use of it is a network of terrestrial base stations that repeat satellite signals, reaching users in places such signals cannot go, such as inside buildings.The best prospect for satellites that transmit Internet data may be variations of what is already in orbit.
At the World Summit on the Information Society 2005 in Tunis, many participants pushed for the UN and one of its agencies, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which co-ordinates the radio spectrum among other things, to take over the running of the internet.
